{"id":25712,"date":"2017-07-07T18:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2017\/07\/07\/the-hard-truth-an-intelligence-analysts-everyday-life-revealed\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:12:31","slug":"the-hard-truth-an-intelligence-analysts-everyday-life-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/unmanned\/uas\/2017\/07\/07\/the-hard-truth-an-intelligence-analysts-everyday-life-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The hard truth: an intelligence analysts&#8217; everyday life, revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a telling glimpse into the lives of military intelligence analysts, Courtney, staff sergeant and intelligence analyst for the Air Force, recently was joined for a day by a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/the-watchers-airmen-who-surveil-the-islamic-state-never-get-to-look-away\/2017\/07\/06\/d80c37de-585f-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_drone-730pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.8484694f80f0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/the-watchers-airmen-who-surveil-the-islamic-state-never-get-to-look-away\/2017\/07\/06\/d80c37de-585f-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_drone-730pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.8484694f80f0\">Washington Post<\/a> reporter. She and many others in her position are first in a chain running from her base in Virginia to air operations in Qatar all the way to the drone pilots scattered across the United States. In her position, Courtney is expected to witness killings or take part in strikes every two to three weeks \u2014 a difficult burden to comprehend and deal with, but essential nonetheless.<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We\u2019re at war. We don\u2019t experience bullets flying, but our decisions have direct impacts on people\u2019s lives,&#8221; Courtney said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this realization is the hardest part of the job. Separating job operations from home life without second-guessing decisions made on the job can take a toll on the intelligence analyst, a toll that has resulted in the rates of suicide and suicidal thoughts being &#8220;way higher than the Air Force average; they were even higher than for those people who had deployed,&#8221; Col. Jason Brown, commander of the 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing, told the Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To help with the stress, the Air Force employed mental-health professionals that are available any time on the operations floor. With this implementation, the rates of suicide have fallen, but the stressors did not diminish. Instead, the stressors have increased over the past three years due to a weapon expansion that enables heavier fighting, which leads to more carnage seen on the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An intelligence analyst is to watch feeds, keep tallies of everyone crossing the screen to mitigate civilian casualties, make judgement calls about threat levels, and \u2014 in the unfortunate event of witnessing a strike or killing \u2014 tally the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. Col. 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